While AR isn’t difficult or expensive to use (especially when compared to 3D Printing or Maker Spaces), it does require forethought and planning. You’ll need a smartphone or tablet with a back facing camera, an augmented reality app (many free), a trigger image (you create yourself, probably for free), and an Internet connection. Then, scan the trigger image with a mobile device app and see what happens!

Although AR isn't one of my favorite uses of technology in the classroom, I do think that it can be educational if used on occasion or as a one-off activity. Kids will certainly be amazed at what they see and you can build on that initial engagement to create real authentic tasks.

Here’s a slightly Orwellian way to check whether your students may have plagiarized part of their essays: the Chrome extension Draftback, which plays back the revision history of any Google doc you can edit—down to the keystroke.

That was just one of the many extensions, add-ons and hacks for the Google ecosystem shared at a pair of sessions packed to the rafters at the Spring CUE 2018 conference in Palm Springs, Calif. The tools span everything from music to time-saving shortcuts and supports for struggling students or those with learning disabilities. Check out these educators’ top picks or explore a list of attendee favorites here.

This looks like a really cool tool for easy recording and editing of videos from your own computer. I have not tried it yet, but watched the promo and liked what I saw. I love to share new resources with the field.

You want all your students to have an equal chance to participate in a class. Our technology makes that happen: turns your powerpoint into a live, connected session where students use their devices to see your slides, answer real-time quizzes, access shared content, ask questions and take private notes.

iFake Text Message is a great tool for creating authentic looking materials to engage students and shift materials design into a genre that’s both relevant and familiar. The tool enables you to create a screen image of a text conversation.

Looking for some educational websites to help you with the management of your class instruction? The list below has you covered. These are some some popular web tools we have reviewed in multiple instances in the past which you can use to perform a wide variety of tasks. These include: creating interactive video lessons, collect formative assessment and provide real-time feedback to students, enhance students learning through the use of digital games and flashcards, create online classes and share with students assignments and learning resources, organize students into appropriate learning groups and many more. Links to these websites are under the visual.

Stakeholders in the education system have repeatedly looked for avenues which will make the entire teaching and learning process easy and seamless. The idea is always to raise a generation which is technically better adept to use the intricacies of the latest technologies like to their advantage. And one such technology which has pushed the education sector a notch higher is mixed reality.

Stakeholders in the education system have repeatedly looked for avenues which will make the entire teaching and learning process easy and seamless. The idea is always to raise a generation which is technically better adept to use the intricacies of the latest technologies like to their advantage. And one such technology which has pushed the education sector a notch higher is mixed reality.

Yeah, we all know how much students like to text… So, why not leverage this obsession by taking advantage of a web tool like ifaketext.com, a nifty online generator that mimics the real thing. Not only is it super simple to use, but it’s a visually engaging way to allow students to demonstrate what they know in a unique way. Plus, there’s nothing quite like using one of the most popular forms of social media to grab our students’ interest and attention, right?

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